Youtube also took down videos for Adobe a few months ago and HN deleted posts/comments about it: https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/google-adobe-a...
YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
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Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#272For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net use…
To play devil's advocate, I'm guessing if you can get users to type stuff they don't understand into cmd and regedit then you can do some pretty damaging stuff. I can see why google would be concerned about malicious versions of these videos being posted, and being difficult to differentiate quickly from ones with the legitimate instructions. Or if those malicious videos were posted and reported, then I can see why a…
Then maybe Microsoft should add a "Use local account" checkbox to the installation screen.
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#273Considering I can find plenty of nonstandard Windows 11 install guides on youtube I don't think this guys video was taken down for that reason. Most likely hit with automated moderating and he probably said "kill" in the video while giving instructions. That could trigger the violence filter and now he gets tons of more views from idiots thinking Microsoft and Google are working together to protect Win11 from a supposed massive wave of people going around the sign in requirement. Or whatever other grievence they have with Windows.
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
People complain about how they hate to use the command line in Linux. But they don't similarly complain about these ultra obscure, ugly commands. When Microsoft necessitates commands, somehow it's different.
You didn't have to use to do this to your OS when Windows was still good. It's only the absolute shitfest that Win 10/11 ended up being that you have to conjure 300 arcane powershell commands just to get the OS to resemble a productive environment.
I think every single Windows release has necessitated some registry hacks to bring back useful features from the previous version
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, that last 10% of games are AAA competitive multiplayer that account for a massive user base who are still dependent on windows to play them (battlefield 6, fortnite, any of the call of duty games from the last 8 years, league of legends, GTA online, apex legends, rainbow six siege...)
Weird, I used to play LoL on linux all the time a few years back. I assume something changed
yeah they introduced vanguard anticheat on all riot games which isn't supported on linux.
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#276The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Just my 2 cents: I recently switch from GIMP to Krita, also very good and I find it more intuitive.
And VLC is a superb media player, I use it on all platforms for like 10 years, nothing even compares to it.
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff Players like mpv are way better unless you want to use nightly build of v4
> Outdated ffmpeg, good for dated formats, not good for new stuff Just how new does the new stuff have to be? I use VLC daily (because even though we have 4x streaming services, when I want to watch 3rd Rock from the Sun, it's not on any of them. Some of the very new movies are also not on any of the streaming services, so I am left wondering, if I downloaded a movie that was only torrented a few days ago, just how n…
Uninstalled vlc ~two years ago, but from what I remember it was missing tons of optimizations with h265 and newer codecs, almost lacking proper av1 and prores support, HDR is terrible. I think it's dated by like 3-4 years.
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you interact with American businesses, use American technology or pay taxes to any Western government, you're indirectly funding genocide, slavery, wanton environmental destruction and countless other crimes by the US, its allies and corporations. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, none of our hands are clean. We all deal with our complicity in various ways, and draw our lines in the sand where we w…
This is quite a stretch of mental gymnastics from the initial point, drawing a blatantly false equivalency between the consumer and the producer as an at attempt to derail and minimize the latter's direct contribution to the forced unethical consumption. And it's an especially absurd argument since it's impossible to ethically consume or even survive with such owners of the means of production. And this whole falsely…
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Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#279For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net use…
What does this accomplish?
Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
#280The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/ 90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925 LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/ GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/ VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
A more difficult but potentially great solution is to run Linux as a the host system and windows in single purpose containers for each game/program that work better in windows. All the anti-user behavior will only have minimal harm if all the container does is to start windows and then start the game, then close when finished. Ads will not have time to be shown, and telemetry only has game data to give. It can take a bit of trickery to get anti-cheat drm to work.